This is a discussion on 2011 WRX - 1st Oil Change 3750 vs. 7500 miles within the General Maintenance, Troubleshooting & Accidents. forums, part of the Tech & Modifying & General Repairs category; I am coming up on 3750 miles and have been debating whether or not to perform the 1st oil change ...

2011 WRX - 1st Oil Change 3750 vs. 7500 miles

I am coming up on 3750 miles and have been debating whether or not to perform the 1st oil change @3750 or @7500 miles. Manual says 7500, many forums recommend 3750. For other cars I have owned, the manufacturer claims that a special high quality oil is used for break in puposes and not to change until the recommended interval. I don't know what Subaru does.

3750 at the latest I would go considering the car comes with 5w-30 energy conserving oil. I did the first change at 1000 miles too just for a piece of mind. I know they recently changed the intervals to 7500 miles but if you read the entire article it still says to change at 3750 under severe conditions or even sooner under race conditions. 7500 is under "normal" conditions which is no short trips (less than 10 miles) and driving like an old lady.

3750 at the latest I would go considering the car comes with 5w-30 energy conserving oil. I did the first change at 1000 miles too just for a piece of mind. I know they recently changed the intervals to 7500 miles but if you read the entire article it still says to change at 3750 under severe conditions or even sooner under race conditions. 7500 is under "normal" conditions which is no short trips (less than 10 miles) and driving like an old lady.

Yeah thats what people dont get.. "normal" to a mfr means "optimal" conditions.. not the actual conditions we drive in. Which by thier standards would easily be "severe" at best.

OBP 2010 5dr *traded*
SWP 2013 FRS
My name is Shawn, I'm a Devout Practicalist and I'm addicted to flat4's This page has had 1,666 visitsSUCH IS MANGO!

vBulletin Message

Errors

The following errors occurred with your submission

Quick Reply

Register Now

Please enter the name by which you would like to log-in and be known on this site.

Password:

Confirm Password:

Please enter a password for your user account. Note that passwords are case-sensitive.

Email Address:

Please enter a valid email address for yourself. We strongly suggest that you stay away from using aol, yahoo, msn, and hotmail accounts. Sometimes the mail server blocks the emails from our server. As a result you will not receive any notifications including the confirmation email.

Insurance:

Please select your insurance company (Optional)

Log-in

User Name:

Password:

Human Verification

In order to verify that you are a human and not a spam bot, please enter the answer into the following box below based on the instructions contained in the graphic.